I recently built a custom theme for my WordPress site and it works perfectly on my localhost. However, when I uploaded it to my hosting server and activated it, I received an error message saying 'Template is missing. Standalone themes need to have a templates/index.html or index.php template file. Child themes need to have a Template header in the style.css stylesheet.' I've double checked and all of my theme files are properly uploaded and organized on the server. I've also checked the file and directory permissions and they seem to be set correctly. I'm not sure what the issue could be. Any ideas on what I should try to fix this issue? Any help is greatly appreciated.
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I tried the following steps to fix the issue with my theme:
I backed up my site using a WordPress plugin to ensure that I had a copy of my site's files and data in case something went wrong.
I checked the file and directory permissions on my hosting server to make sure that all of the theme files were set to the correct permissions.
I reviewed the style.css and index.php files to see if there were any issues or mistakes that might be causing the problem.
I made sure that my theme was properly activated in the WordPress dashboard.
Despite these efforts, the issue persisted and my theme was still not displaying correctly on the live site. I was expecting the theme to display correctly and for all of its features to work as intended after activating it on the hosting server
